Famous people, preconceptions busted/confirmed

[evilmunkey]

Dom Brunt aka paddy the vet from emmerdale.. a good mate and as normal as nice a bloke you couldnt wish to meet.
Tom Savini , make up fx dude from friday the thirteenth , dawn of the dead etc.. again top bloke
Adam savage from mythbusters was in the same hotel as me a while ago and met him in the foyer.. lovely guy and just like you would think he would be.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.. fecking top blokes of the highest order. !!!

[HTP99]

Remembered another; Keith Barron, what a lovely guy, no airs or graces just a really nice and down to earth bloke.

His son was in panto somewhere and he managed to secure backstage passes and access to the after party for my colleague and his family.

[ClaphamGT3]

Chlamydia said:

ExV8 said:

I met Prince Phillip several years ago. It was after the media had a good go at him for his gaffes.

I thought he was a really decent individual and showed that the so called gaffes were poorly executed small talkat most.

I met him many years ago when he visited the training depot of my regiment. I was the youngest person in the regiment so was picked to salute him and open the door for him to the regimental HQ, unfortunately I got well and truly pissed a couple of days before and ended up with a tattoo of a naked woman with huge norks on my forearm so on the big day I was positioned behind the door holding it open as they were worried a 16 year old with a naughty tattoo wasn't the image they wanted to portray, (I can't blame them tbh). Someone had obviously told him though because as he walked in he stuck his head round the door, winked at me and called me a "bad lad" . Top bloke.

He came to visit us at Gib Barracks back in the mid nineties. Drove himself in a not very new Discovery with only his protection officer and equerry and a back up car. He wanted to meet as wide a cross section of people as possible and asked knowledgeable, informed, technical questions and showed a genuine interest in our work. The mess had laid on a very swept-up buffet lunch for him. He completely bypassed the posh food and helped himself to a plate of ham sandwiches and a glass of pale ale, saying that he liked plain food when possible as normally "they just give us fancy stuff".

He left me with the impression that he was a thoroughly decent - and very intelligent - man

Boris Johnson is very different to his public persona in person; much more business like and 'normal'

Jeremy Guscott came across as an epic bell-end

Ben Ainsley is delightful

Ellen McArthur is lovely but quite serious and not one for small talk

John Major is charming and affable but somehow conveys an inner steel that doesn't come across on TV

Edited by ClaphamGT3 on Saturday 7th March 19:19

[loughran]

B17NNS said:

DanielSan said:

Neil Morrissey - part owns a pub local to me thats opened tonight, top bloke, more than a bit pissed by the time we spoke to him

The Plume?

Neil Morrisey part owned a pub in my locality once. Things didn't go well.

Attention absorbing t0sser.

[smegmore]

John Virgo in Heathrow waiting for the first Manchester shuttle - a nice down to earth guy willing to chat to a half-pissed idiot just back from the Middle East a big guy too.

David Bellamy - Sat next to him in Gatwick, he looked like a tramp off the street in a ripped t-shirt, old tatty shorts and old sandals, up his own arse too.

[Rawwr]

Casey Stoner. Possibly one of the most hated MotoGP riders of recent times. Very shy, incredibly polite, happy to talk about anything and everything. Couldn't have been nicer.

[guru_1071]

loughran said:

Neil Morrisey part owned a pub in my locality once. Things didn't go well.

Attention absorbing t0sser.

that used to be my local

he was a massive prat and managed to upset just about everybody.

things didn't go well at all.................



its now known as 'bob the builders'

[CatfishCKY]

Met Juliet Landau - thought she wasn't going to be too chatty, but she was absolutely adorable, and I wish I could have talked to her a lot longer, really nice woman!

Also met Anthony Head - again thought he was going to be quite aloof, but he was genuinely a seriously nice guy! His accent is a lot more Cockney than I ever thought it was too!

Tom Savini, special effects movie guy - rude and arrogant, above himself and not worth talking to.

David Hasselhoff - wasn't expecting him to be too friendly, and he was seriously seriously nice!! A real top bloke!

Kane Hodder, Jason Voorhees in Friday 13th 7, 8, 9, X - he looks utterly terrifying but he has an ansolute heart of gold, really chatty and has all the time in the world for his fans. He will even choke you for a picture opportunity!

[Supernova190188]

Wacky Racer said:

Sat next to Led Zeppelin's John Bonham in a pub in Kidderminster once, starstruck, and short of something to say, I said "The beer's good in here John".....

He got up from his barstool, said "fk off" and walked out...........

Real rock 'n roll......

My mate used to go out with his daughter Zoe a fair few years back!

[B17NNS]

loughran said:

B17NNS said:

DanielSan said:

Neil Morrissey - part owns a pub local to me thats opened tonight, top bloke, more than a bit pissed by the time we spoke to him

The Plume?

Neil Morrisey part owned a pub in my locality once. Things didn't go well.

Attention absorbing t0sser.

He's just taken over/refurbed one just up the road from me. Plume of Feathers in Barlaston, Staffs. Assume this is the one DanielSan is referring to.

[Vizsla]

Ojc said:

ruff'n'smov said:

Cilla Black, vile, pompous, stuck up cow.

Yep, glad someone else said it. Awful woman by all accounts.

Have another one. Met some friends of friends who were BA long haul cabin crew. When dear old Cil was on their flight they used to draw short straw to decide who had the 'pleasure' of having her in their section, by all accounts the most vile, self-important harridan you could ever wish not to meet.

[Baryonyx]

I used to work in the conference and events section of a hotel, so met a few 'names' over the years.

Alan Shearer was about as charismatic as you'd expect. Never missed a free dinner at a charity ball, hated kids asking for his autograph or wanting a photo. Peter Beardsley was the opposite, very personable. I once met Beardsley two days in a row by chance. I was working a late shift and on both days, went to fill up at the petrol station on Barrack Road, next to St James Park. Beardsley was there on both days, with his silver E65 BMW parked across a junction leading back onto the main road.


Thierry Heni and Freddi Lundberg of Arsenal both came across as self absorbed oafs, Arsene Wenger was as characterless as he looks on the television. He was the only person in the team or staff who was allowed grapefruit juice for breakfast, apparently it was one of his ways of managing discipline on the team!

Cliff Richard was there too. My manager was a huge a fan of his and loved meeting him.

[RobinBanks]

I've just remembered an Alan Shearer one circa 1995. I was quite into football and Newcastle had recently beaten Manchester United 5-0 and I think Shearer might have scored a hat trick in that match so he was very popular. I got him to sign a plain t-shirt. He just glared and me and roughly signed it without a word.

I was actually surprised as I had thought he was a friendly guy.

[Scousefella]

My sister bumped (literally) into Ricky Tomlinson some time ago and she said he is a complete lunatic!!!

She is a careers officer and he was doing a school visit/chat with pupils in Liverpool.

In the staff room afterwards he was a complete laugh and had them all in stitches.

Scousers, flucking salt of the Earth I tell thee.

[E24man]

Vizsla said:

Ojc said:

ruff'n'smov said:

Cilla Black, vile, pompous, stuck up cow.

Yep, glad someone else said it. Awful woman by all accounts.

Have another one. Met some friends of friends who were BA long haul cabin crew. When dear old Cil was on their flight they used to draw short straw to decide who had the 'pleasure' of having her in their section, by all accounts the most vile, self-important harridan you could ever wish not to meet.

I also know some BA long haul staff who say the same, but CB is now apparently banned from BA.

I've met a couple of ex-England football players at the school drop-off and pick-up and they are as nice you'd like.

[Vaud]

E24man said:

I also know some BA long haul staff who say the same, but CB is now apparently banned from BA.

Slightly off topic but seems to validate:

http://www.pprune.org/cabin-crew/300180-who-your-n...

[ArmaghMan]

Kevin Bridges. Met him in the bar after a gig in Armagh. Top top bloke, really relaxed, chatted away, photos the lot.
Gent

[simplygod]

Met Jo Guest in a sticky floored night club in Milton Keynes once. Very nice lady.

[PinkRinse]

Met Jay Kay at FoS at the super car paddock. Some guy had been boring the bottom off him and you could see he wanted to go but was happy to pose for a picture with me.

Edd China again at FoS (I tell thee peeps, go to the super car paddock & just people watch!). He really is obscenely tall & joked about standing on his tippy toes like I was for the picture

Chris Harris (yep). Clearly in a little bit of a rush to get somewhere but again happy to pause for a quick picture.

Tiff Needel - my OH bought a drift experience with Tiff & he was lovely. Hard to judge as he's clearly doing a job to Joe Public but seemed nice enough. Seemed impressed enough I was off to a real ale/beer festival afterwards

Sean Bean at a Napoleonic themed thing at the height of his Sharpe fame. Really friendly & down to earth.

Didn't meet him per say but was on the same flight as Zakk Wylde. We were sat with his crew whilst "the boss" was sat upfront in 1st class. He did come back and my OH managed to accidentally elbow him in the arse lol

[Scousefella]

Japveesix said:

Scousefella said:

Emma Willis - You see her on TV hosting The Voice and Big Brother, she looks cute and has amazing eyes. When emptying her septic tank and she comes out in jogging bottoms and a Lycra Gym-top she looks ubercute and still has the ultra sexy eyes. She is so dinky/dainty.

You jammy jammy sod.

Mate, her sh*t still stinks and all that.

Would you like me to scoop up a few tampons and nuggets for you next time around?